(WIB) – Rights don’t always disappear in one big sweep; they erode quietly. It’s a headline here, a policy change there, a small shift that compounds until it feels overwhelming, and it is impossible to ignore. And that’s the plan: keep us too tired to notice, too tired to fight, too tired to vote so the few in power can hold on.
The widening pay gap is one of those compounding “small things,” only that its impact is anything but small. Last year, the pay gap widened by two cents, and women working full-time, on average, made 81 cents for every dollar a white man in her position made. This loss hurts, and not only is it felt in the paychecks of hard-working women, but it is felt by advocates, activists, and legislators who relentlessly and boldly fight for pay equity. Our work toward equa